21-124 Modeling with Differential Equations

Course Information:
Section A Section B Section C
Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday
9:30AM - 10:20AM 10:30AM - 11:20PM 11:30PM - 12:20PM
Wean 5202 Wean 5202 Wean 5202


This is the course web page of 21-124. It exists to teach you to use the course software (Matlab, Dfield, and Pplane) and as a source of homework assignments, handouts and announcements. There is of course no substitute for attending the lectures. Please be aware that the CMU computing services only makes Matlab available on its Unix and Linux machines and when completing the following exercises you should be using machines of this type.



Announcements:

The Project 1 due date has been extended. The new duedate is 5:00 on Friday April 26.
Lecture notes for the thirteenth class added. (4/16/02)
Lecture notes for the twelfth class added. (4/16/02)
THE DUEDATE ON HW#5 IS INCORRECT! It should read Friday, March 22 - One week later than it does.
Homework #4 added (2/26/02)
Homework #3 added (2/12/02)
Homework #2 added (2/05/02)
Lecture 4 notes added (2/05/02)
Lecture notes from third class added (2/1/02)
Links to numerical solver M-files added (2/1/02)
Links to the M-files heavy.m, lght.m and rect.m added(2/1/02)
Lecture notes from second class added (1/21/02)
Lecture notes from first class added (1/16/02)
Welcome to 21-124 Modeling with Differential Equations





Tutorials, Handouts and M files
Download bottle.m
Download the notes from the thirteenth class (PS format)
Download the notes from the thirteenth class (PDF format)
Download the notes from the twelfth class (PS format)
Download the notes from the twelfthth class (PDF formatDownload the notes from the tenth class (PS format)
Download the notes from the tenth class (PDF format)
Download the notes from the eleventh class (PS format)
Download the notes from the eleventh class (PDF format)
Download the notes from the ninth class (PS format)
Download the notes from the ninth class (PDF format)
Download the notes from the eigth class (PS format)
Download the notes from the eighth class (PDF format)
Download the twodspring.m function m file and the movingspring.m function m file
Download the rossler.m function m file
Download the notes from the seventh class (PS format)
Download the notes from the seventh class (PDF format)
Download the notes from the sixth class (PS format)
Download the notes from the sixth class (PDF format)
Download the function M-file force.m. You also need the function M-file lght.m.
Download the notes from the fourth class (PS format)
Download the notes from the fourth class (PDF format)
Download the notes from the third class(PS format)
Download the notes from the third class(PDF format)
Download the M-files heavy.m, lght.m and rect.m
Download the M-files eul.m, eul.m and rk4.m. All of these are available courtesy of John Polking at Rice University.
Download the notes from the second class(PS format)
Download the notes from the second class(PDF format)
Download the notes from the first class(PS format)
Download the notes from the first class(PDF format)
Downloading and installing Dfield and Pplane
Printing from within Dfield
Viewing a PDF file with a unix machine
A beginners guide to using emacs










Homeworks:
Homework in PDF format Homework in PS format
Homework 1 in PDF Homework 1 in PS
Homework 2 in PDF Homework 2 in PS
Homework 3 in PDF Homework 3 in PS
Homework 4 in PDF Homework 4 in PS
Homework 5 in PDF Homework 5 in PS
Homework 6 in PDF Homework 6 in PS
Project 1 in PDF Project 1 in PS
Project 2 in PDF Project 2 in PS











Any questions?

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Dr. Handron Dr. Tolle
(412) 268-5913 (412) 268-3307
Wean Hall 6121 Wean Hall 7209
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Drag your poor, overworked TA away from his studies and make him help you with your work:
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Sunday from 8 PM to 10 PM in Wean 5202